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Anthropic's Trust Equation, Google's Show of Hands, and Grok Never Logs Off

This week in AI: Anthropic's Claude cracks open a 167-year-old maths problem the same week it watermarks every future output, a Google DeepMind model lets Deaf users sign to their Pixel 11, and xAI's Grok Bot works your inbox while you sleep.

People are grieving their AI

Your brain mistakes attention for connection.

Google Sells the Shovels, The Great Hark Handoff, and ByteDance's Bigger Picture

This week in AI: Google's leadership shake-up as Hassabis steps back and Jeff Dean departs, Hark Labs' Handoff agent shops with real credit cards, and ByteDance's 30-second video model with a 10-trillion-parameter run behind it.

Claude Design Can Replicate Any Brand

The five-minute setup that puts your brand on everything Claude Design makes.

DeepSeek's Flash Sale, Google's Gemini Finds Its Feet, and Music Copyright Bites Back

This week in AI: DeepSeek undercuts OpenAI with an open-weights model at $0.14 per million tokens, Google DeepMind gives humanoid robots whole-body control, and AI music generator Suno loses its copyright battle in Munich.

The End of Prompting

Claude can now learn a task by watching you do it once.

Anthropic's Magnum Opus, OpenAI's Omnipresence, and China's Cheap Frontier

This week in AI: Anthropic releases Opus 5 and Claude learns by watching you work, OpenAI puts voice in charge of your computer, and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 claims frontier scale with open weights.

The good, the bad and the ugly of AI writing

The deep irony in consulting AI to decide whether a human wrote something, because AI is evil.

Google Clones You, Meta Powers Anthropic, and Thinking Machines Opens the Vault

This week in AI: Your AI double arrives in Gemini, Anthropic's $10B compute deal with Meta, and Thinking Machines releases a free frontier-scale model.

AI Will Never Give the Same Answer Twice

Where the randomness comes from and how to make it work for you.